IMAGE FORMING DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXCHANGING PRINT DATA WITH ANOTHER IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR

摘要

An image forming device capable of acquiring to-be-printed data from any of external image forming devices, without making inquiries about the presence or absence of the to-be-printed data to all the external image forming devices. An image forming apparatus receives, from another image forming apparatus that has received print data, bibliographic information containing identification information that identifies the another image forming apparatus, and registers the received bibliographic information. When receiving a bibliographic information acquisition request, the image forming apparatus transmits bibliographic information, among pieces of bibliographic information registered in the image forming apparatus, to the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the bibliographic information acquisition request.

主权项

1. An image forming device comprising:
a reception unit configured to receive, from a first device of other image forming devices that has stored print data, print settings in which at least a print setting for printing the print data is included and a user ID of a user who instructed said first device to print an image; a registration unit configured to register the print settings, the user ID, and a device ID of said first device; and a transmission unit configured, in a case where a request is issued from a second device of the other image forming devices to which a user has logged-in, to transmit the print settings and the device ID to the second device, based on a determination that a user ID of the user who has logged-in to the second device corresponds to the user ID registered in said registration unit.